WASHINGTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Advanced BioFuels Association announced today that its member companies elected a Chairman and Vice Chairman of its Board of Directors at its Winter Board Meeting in Washington D.C.

RALEIGH, N.C. _ Jesse Helms will probably be remembered as one of the leading figures in the rise of the Republican Party in the South _ a person who helped move conservative Democrats to the GOP, according to historians and political experts who watched his career.

FREDERICK, Md., March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- BP Solar chief executive Lee Edwards today will be honored by the Maryland World Trade Center Institute with a 2008 Maryland International Business Leadership award.

By Allison Connolly, The Baltimore Sun Nov. 17--FREDERICK -- BP Solar unveiled plans yesterday for a $70 million expansion of its manufacturing plant off Interstate 70, which will give it twice the capacity to produce solar panels and create 70 new jobs.